What is an Emanation ?
In a strict sense, tulku is a Tibetan translation of the Sanskrit nirmāṇakāya, which refers to the "transformation" or "emanation body" of a Buddha.
Tulku is therefore the physical "form in which a Buddha appears to ordinary beings.”
Could You Recognise a Buddha?
The word Buddha is derived from the Pali word ‘budh’ meaning to wake up, perceive, become aware. The Buddha is one who has transcended attachment, ill will, and ignorance (sometimes referred to as greed, hatred and delusion), who has perceived impermanence, dukkha, and selflessness, and attained Enlightenment and realized Nibbana (Nirvana). It is a state of consciousness when the individual is aware of absolute reality. It is a generic name and applies to all persons who have reached this stage.
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Death Bardo and the Afterlife
“And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.”
Genesis, xxviii, 12 – KJV
Modelling Expansion of Consciousness
Any attempt to model phenomena so that an awareness or consciousness might assimilate or comprehend it, is just a model. It is a narration or a modelling of an underlying reality. It is not reality itself. People are lazy with language which imbues a false sense of reality and an inviolate accuracy on the model of choice. The model is mistaken for the reality. It is deemed explicitly real by usage.
Are Appearance and Reputation Important?
All appearance is delusion.
If you view all appearance as nonappearance,
Then that view is your true nature.
Do not become attached to any thoughts that arise in the mind.
What is a Bodhisattva?
bodhisattva, in Buddhism, one who seeks awakening (bodhi)—hence, an individual on the path to becoming a Buddha.
How Much is Enough – Dissatisfaction
In Japanese Buddhism, the Hungry Ghosts are considered to have two variants: the gaki and the jikininki. Gaki (餓鬼) are the spirits of jealous or greedy people who, as punishment for their mortal vices, have been cursed with an insatiable hunger for a particular substance or object.
Bodhisattva Vow and Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra
Like a blind man fumbling in garbage
Happens to find a rare and precious gem,
Likewise I have discovered
The jewel of the precious Bodhi-mind.
Buddhist Nihilism and Controlled Folly
I have no control over who might read the blog nor what they may make of it. The only thing I have responsibility for is my own folly. It is up to me if I express that folly in an impeccable manner or not.
Philosophical cul-de-sacs and Controlled Folly
The attempts at mapping the cosmic microwave background are to “hear” the echo of left over energy from the utterance of the primordial and cosmogenic AUM, the first vibration or “word” that stimulated the current universe into manifestation. Scientists are listening to the universe chanting mantra.
Are You Important – A Big Cheese?
Many people behave as if the entire universe revolves around their lower posterior sphincter. They feel very important and entitled. They think that the universe should submit to all their petty wants, ambitions and desires.
Being a big cheese is not Buddha-nature…you cannot be a big cheese and a Buddha.
Ploy Fatigue
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion bright as magnesium...
The Logic of Fate
The role of the Moirai was to ensure that every being, mortal and divine, lived out their destiny as it was assigned to them by the laws of the universe. For mortals, this destiny spanned their entire lives and was represented as a thread spun from a spindle.
The Array of the Thus-Gone One Akṣobhya
Literally “unperturbed” or “immovable.” The Buddha of the eastern Buddha-field of Abhirati
In the Time of No Buddhas
“Pratyekabuddhas are said to achieve enlightenment on their own, without the use of teachers or guides, according to some traditions by seeing and understanding dependent origination. They are said to arise only in ages where there are no Buddhas and the Buddhist teachings are lost.”
Modern Chöd Practice
As society changes and evolves so do our fears and anxieties. The charnel grounds of a Tibetan vulture sky burial might be replaced by the high technology instrument room and months of drip by drip chemotherapy
Leaving the Palace of Rājā Śuddhodana
Renouncing power, status and wealth is bat-shit crazy…
Was Siddartha a wastrel and a loser?
Lunatic or Mahāsiddha?
There is a tendency to equate anything straying from norm as lunacy or madness. At a push one might be allowed to be creatively avant garde. From inside the hamster wheel those on the outside look crazy.